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De or Des + noun+adjective
"des" or "de" ?
The article des is replaced by de, in formal French, when the name that it determines is an epithet adjective placed before a plural noun.
Eg. Ce club nous donne de sérieuses bases en anglais.
If the epithet was placed after the noun, there would be no problem using des:
Eg. Ce club nous donne des bases sérieuses en anglais.
When both the epithet and the noun form a compound noun , des is used.
Ex : Ce sont des jeunes gens pleins d’espoir.
(jeunes gens being a kind of compound noun even if there is no hyphen).
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